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Republic o Genoa

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Maist Serene Republic o Genoa

  • Serenissima Repubblica di Genova  (Italian)
  • Repúbrica de Zêna  (Ligurian)
1005–1797

Apr 1814 – Jan 1815
Banner o Genoa
Banner
Coat o airms o Genoa
Coat o airms
Motto: Respublica superiorem non recognoscens
(Laitin: "Republic that recognizes no superior")
View o Genoa an its fleet bi Christoforo de Grassi (1597 copy, efter a drawin o 1481); Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa.
View o Genoa an its fleet bi Christoforo de Grassi (1597 copy, efter a drawin o 1481); Galata Museo del Mare, Genoa.
CaipitalGenoa
Common leidsLigurian, Laitin, Italian
Releegion
Roman Catholic
GovrenmentOligarchic republic
Doge 
• 1339–1344
Simone Boccanegra
• 1795–1797
Giacomo Maria Brignole
• 1814–1815
it [Girolamo Serra]
Historical era
• Established
1005
Juin 14, 1797
• Re-established
Aprile 26, 1814
Januar 7 1815
CurrencyGenovino
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Kinrick o Italy (imperial)
Gênes
Ligurian Republic
Kinrick Sardinie

The Maist Serene Republic o Genoa (Italian: Repubblica di Genova, Ligurian: Repúbrica de Zêna) wis an independent state frae 1005 tae 1797 in Ligurie on the northwastren Italian coast, as well as Corsicae frae 1347 tae 1768, an numerous ither territories throughoot the Mediterranean.

It began when Genoa acame a self-govrenin commune within the Regnum Italicum, an endit when it wis conquered bi French First Republic unner Napoleon an replaced wi the Ligurian Republic. Corsicae wis cedit in the Treaty o Versailles o 1768. The Ligurian Republic wis annexed bi the First French Empire in 1805, an its restoration wis briefly proclaimed in 1814 follaein the defeat o Napoleon, but wis ultimately annexed bi the Kinrick o Sardinie in 1815.